It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work.

* Experimental films: Ann Arbor Film Festival was started in 1963.

Harakiri won him an award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, solidifying his place in the history of cinema.

In May 1963, Lipscomb appeared at the first Monterey Folk Festival in California.

Centre, L-R: The bombing of the Mount of Olives during the Six-Day War ; John F. Kennedy is Assassination of John F. Kennedy | assassinated in 1963, after serving the office of president for three years ; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million ; Millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969.

He wrote an original score for director Michael Langham's production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada which opened on July 29, 1963.

However, by 1963 a permanent nucleus of singers and staff was retained throughout the year and the company had made appearances at regional festivals, including the Adelaide Festival.

Jim Kweskin # Jim Kweskin Jug Band 1963 Newport Folk Festival ; Photo © John Byrne Cooke

Since 1963 the cathedral has been home to the St Albans International Organ Festival, winners of which include Dame Gillian Weir, Thomas Trotter and Naji Hakim.

* Live at Monterey Jazz Festival ' 63 ( sept. 21 – 2, 1963, MFSL, 2 vols.

* Beatrice in Beatrice et Benedict ( concert version ) Royal Festival Hall, November 1963

In 1963, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a shell-shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M. D .. At the Cannes Film Festival he won the French Film Critics Award for best actor.

For his role, Harris won Best Actor in 1963 at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination.

In 1962, Constantin Silvestri became Principal Conductor and raised the standard and profile of the orchestra, with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1963, a first European tour in 1965, notable recordings and regular radio broadcasts.

He returned to TV in 1963 with The Charlie Drake Show, a compilation of which won an award at the Montreux Festival in 1968.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

* San Sebastián International Film Festival: OCIC Award Blake Edwards ; Prize San Sebastián, Best Actor, Jack Lemmon ; Best Actress, Lee Remick ; 1963.

The film was Richard Harris ' first starring role, and won him a Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1963, Richardson won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Long Day's Journey into Night.

James died of his third heart attack in Chicago in 1963, just prior to a tour of Europe with that year's American Folk Blues Festival.

Washington's achievements included appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival ( 1955 – 59 ), the Randalls Island Jazz Festival in New York City ( 1959 ), and the International Jazz Festival in Washington D. C. ( 1962 ), frequent gigs at Birdland ( 1958, 1961 – 62 ), and performances in 1963 with Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

The Royal Philharmonic Society decided not to engage the RPO for its concerts in 1963, Glyndebourne engaged the London Philharmonic instead of the RPO from 1964 onwards and the management of the Royal Festival Hall also severed its connections with the orchestra.

The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.

The X3. 2. 4 task group voted its approval for the change to ASCII at its May 1963 meeting.

* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.

*" 2. 5 Million Is Asked In Sea Disaster ", The Washington Post, February 19, 1963.

* Naked City ( 2 episodes, 1961 – 1963 )

Arnaz married his second wife, Edith Mack Hirsch, on March 2, 1963, and greatly reduced his show business activities.

It was powered by the 4. 2 L Fairlane engine with a Colotti transaxle, the same power plant was used by the Lola GT and the single-seater Lotus 29 that came in a highly controversial second at the Indy 500 in 1963.

* 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2, 000 people breaks out.

* 1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

The Northern Territory has allowed majority verdicts of 10: 2, 10: 1 and 9: 1 since 1963 and does not discriminate between cases whether the charge is murder or not.

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( 2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963 ) was a German composer.

* Patrick Kerwin ( as Chief Justice, 1 July 1954 – 2 February 1963 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Richard Bennett, 20 July 1935 )

Dugan, " Poems 2 " Yale University Press ( 1963 ) pg.

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* 1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2, 000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.

* Patrick Kerwin ( July 20, 1935 – February 2, 1963 )

* In 1963 he became the first player to complete the Test double of 200 wickets and 2, 000 runs.

Thanks to industrialization GDP per hour worked ( labor output ) more than tripled from US $ 2. 80 in 1963 to US $ 10. 00 in 1989.

The Seekers featured on " Episode 2: Ten Pound Rocker 1963 – 1968 " broadcast on 22 August, in which Durham and Woodley discussed their early work on a cruise ship, meeting Tom Springfield and their success in Britain.

This issue had arisen most recently with the assassination of then-President John Kennedy, remaining vacant from November 22, 1963, until January 20, 1965, and was rectified by Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

* November 2 – Eva Cassidy, American vocalist ( b. 1963 )

* November 2 – 1963 South Vietnamese coup: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.

* July 2 – Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist ( d. 1963 )